Internet Telephony Fall 2004
Fall VON 2004
New York Society of Securities Analysts’ Conference Fall 2004

NEWARK, N. J. Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP), a leading provider of retail Voice over IP (VoIP) services, announced today participation in the following upcoming events. Interested parties can view details of these events on Net2Phone’s Web site at [ >>> ]

-- September 8, 2004 — Kaufman Brothers 7th Annual Communications, Media & Technology Conference, New York, NY. Stephen Greenberg, Chief Executive Officer of Net2Phone, will discuss recent partnerships and product developments at Net2Phone as well as provide a market outlook on Voice over IP.

-- September 22, 2004 — Jefferies 2nd Annual Communications and Media Conference, New York, NY. Stephen Greenberg will provide an overview of Net2Phone’s mission, product offerings and strategy.

-- October 4–7, 2004 — Internet Telephony Expo, Los Angeles, CA. Net2Phone management will address questions regarding residential VoIP services as well as Chair a session on «The Role of VoIP in Cable Telephony.»

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Charter Communications Inc. on Monday announced agreements with Level 3 Communications Inc. and Sprint to help the cable company provide local and long-distance phone service in select markets.

„These agreements enable Charter to significantly increase telephony deployments in each of our divisions during 2005,“ Tom Cullen, Charter executive vice president of advanced services and business development, said in a press release.

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Contributed by: Dave Howe

VoIP is a developing field — there are three major (and several minor) competing standards, two of which are directly supported by major players like Microsoft, and the UK’s Telecomms Infrastruture owner (BT), which is planning to move its current digital TDM system to VoIP. The question I find myself asking all too often is, "Why is everyone up in arms about it, either for or against? If one didn’t know any better, one might think this technology is the savour of mankind, or the face of evil. Dave Howe submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which puts the issue in perspective.
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In fact, it is neither…or both.
VoIP, like any other realtime telecommunications network, is only useful in direct proportion to the number of nodes that exist. When Fax machines were still prohibatively expensive, there was no incentive to produce them cheaply in bulk — because, there were only a few weather Bureaus and government offices that you could send faxes to. These days, everyone in business has a fax machine, and the decision to not have one at a business is not taken lightly.

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CARLA CROWDER
News staff writer
Relatives of Alabama prisoners are organizing a month-long boycott of prison phone calls in hopes of depriving the prison system of some of the money raised from phone contracts.

The Montgomery-based group, Family Members of Inmates, is calling September «The Month of Stamps.» The group is encouraging people who normally rely on phone calls to keep in touch with prisoners to write letters, instead.

The Alabama Department of Corrections profits more than half a million dollars per month on phone calls. Last year, the department collected about $6.5 million from the phones, according to figures provided by prisons spokesman Brian Corbett.

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